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Italy’s national team midfielder Andrea Pirlo arrives with the team at Johannesburg O.R Tambo international airport on June 9, 2010 two days before the beginning of the 2010 Football World Cup hosted by South Africa from June 11 to July 11.

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Italy arrive to defend World Cup title Agence France Presse

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JOHANNESBURG – Reigning champions Italy arrived in South Africa on Wednesday to defend their crown after tournament favourites Spain showed off their firepower as they scored six times in their final warm-up game.

Coach Marcello Lippi’s Italian squad, which includes nine of the players in the squad which triumphed four years ago in Germany, were guarded by dozens of police after their plane touched down at Johannesburg airport.

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The Italians’ arrival ups the tempo two days before Friday’s big kickoff when the host nation take on Mexico in front of 90,000 specta-

tors — including former president Nelson Mandela — at Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium.

Italy have rarely shone since their triumph against France in the 2006 final in Berlin, but the country’s football federation chief Giancarlo Abete insisted it would be a mistake to write off Lippi’s squad.

“Italy are world champions, that should not be forgotten but you cannot deny that other teams have done better than us in the last few years,” Abete said on the plane to South Africa.

“For everyone the favourites are Brazil, Spain, Argentina and England, but we’ve got great belief.

“For Italy we’re talking about tradition and in big competitions our strengths show through.”

But history is against the Italians — no country has won back-toback World Cups since Brazil in 1962.

Lippi has already lost key man Andrea Pirlo to a calf strain for the Paraguay game and the playmaker faces a race against time to be involved in any of the group games.

Militants, troops clash in Pakistan; 54 killed AP

PARACHINAR, Pakistan – Dozens of militants attacked a security convoy in an area near Afghanistan where Pakistan declared the Taliban defeated, sparking a battle that killed six soldiers and 40 militants, an official said Wednesday.

The clash in Orakzai tribal region illustrated the challenge facing Pakistan as it responds to U.S. pressure and tries to oust Islamist insurgents hiding along the Afghan border. Its declarations of success in some parts have often

been premature.

Fifteen soldiers also were wounded in the late Tuesday fighting, government administration Samiullah Khan said.

The army’s offensive in Orakzai came on the heels of an operation against the Pakistani Taliban in the South Waziristan tribal area. Many militants in South Waziristan were believed to have fled to Orakzai, though the top Pakistani Taliban leaders are believed to be in North Waziristan, an area the Pakistani army has resisted attacking.

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Bali News Pragina Mas perform classical dance in the 32nd BAF PRAGINA Mas, a nickname given to the legendary Balinese dancers who have perpetuated their life to the arts, will jazz up the event of 32nd Bali Arts Festival (BAF) 2010, next Sunday (Jun 13). This art presentation is specially dedicated by the management of Denpasar Art Center (UPT Taman Budaya) in collaboration with Lila Cita art community, Pinda, Blahbatuh, Gianyar.

The Pragina Mas will make its presentation by staging classical dances in Wantilan Hall of Denpasar Art Center at 2:00 pm Local Time.

Members of the community consist of Jero Puspawati, Jero Gadung Arwati, Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi, AA Gede Rahma Putra, Ida Bagus Oka Wirjana, Ni Luh Menek, AA Ayu Kusuma Arini, and AA Ayu Trisna Bulan Djelantik. It was revealed by the Head of Denpasar Art Center Dewa Made Nurjana Putra, last Tuesday (Jun 8). Presentation of these legendary dancers was intended to motivate young people to make art creations harder and preserve the Balinese culture. “We are necessary to persistently introduce our art maestros to young generations through BAF event so they get motivated to preserve and develop their culture,” he said.

In the classical arts performance, Jero Puspawati, a dancer of Tegeh Kori, Denpasar-born in 1933 will show off Candra Metu Dance. This dance describes the beauty of the moon when going out of her bed.

As if the beautiful bright moonlight shared her beauty with every single corner of the earth. Since the age of seven years old, Jero Puspawati had learned to dance from Wayan Rindi and Nyoman Kaler who composed this dance in 1942.

Furthermore, the dancer Jero Gadung Arwati from Tabanan born in 1937 will show off Wiranata Dance. This dance describes the valor and glory of a king to lead his subjects. Originally this dance was created by a great artist I Nyoman Kaler in 1946 and later on revised

by I Nyoman Ridet. Jero Gadung Arwati herself had learned to dance since the age of 9 years from Made Pasek in Kerambitan and Nyoman Ridet.

Other dancers is Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi presenting the Oleg Tamulilingan Dance (serving as female beetles). Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi is noted as the first artist dancing the dance created by Ketut Maria (Mario) in 1952. The dancer of Ubud, Peliatanborn in 1939 was originally learned to dance Condong Legong from Gusti Made Sengog, then trained Oleg Dance by Ketut Maria. Oleg Tamulilingan is a dance depicting a couple of male and female beetle flirting in the flower garden. Its male dancer will be brought by AA Gede Putra Rahma.

Meanwhile, Goak Macok Dance depicting the agility of a crow safeguarding its nest visualized in the liveliness of dancing while seating will be brought by Ida Bagus Oka Wirjana, 81. This dance artist from Blangsinga, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, had learned to

dance since his young age from his uncle, Ida Bagus Kompyang. Then, he once became a student of Ketut Mario to learn Kebyar Duduk Dance that was also composed by Mario.

Then, Palawakya Dance conveying the greatness and wisdom of a king that masters all forms of arts will be presented by Ni Luh Menek who was born at Jagaraga, Buleleng, in 1939.

Since her childhood, Luh Menek had studied Teruna Jaya Dance and continued to learn Palawakya Dance from Wayan Wandres as composer of these two dances.

In the meantime, the Semarandana Classical Legong Dance depicting the story of love affairs of Dewi Ratih (goddess of love) and Dewa Semara (gods of love) that later were burnt by the Lord Shiva and their ashes were scattered over the earth as early human love story. This dance will be performed by the dancers of next generation of the previous ones.

They were two cousins who were born in 1947 in Karangasem, namely AA Ayu Kusuma Arini and AA Bulan Trisna Djelantik. Both dancers had learned to dance since the age of eight years from Ida Bagus Raka Bongkasa. Up to these days, they continue to preserve and develop the arts of Balinese dance performance. (08)

Fire Due Incense Calamity Bangli (Bali Post)

Houses calamity caused by burning incent forgot to turn back after praying there. Not long ago one of the people Sekaan Kintamani burned because forgot to turn off the fire of incense. Turn home I Nengah Mudiana (37) from Pondokan Pacung Pengelumbaran Susut Bangli Sunday (6 / 6) evening the same boat. As a result, the victims suffered losses estimated at approxi-

mately Rp 25 million.

Bangli district police reskrim AKP I Ketut Badra Monday (7 / 6) yesterday, describing the first known incident by Ni Nengah Darsini dan Nengah Handayani (17) who accidentally drove past the victim’s home. Witnesses helped residents tried to extinguish the fire. But not much help and losses incurred are estimated to reach Rp 25 million.

Strong suspicion that the fire

originated from a fire point of incense forgotten victims of the post is turned off for prayers. For the incident that he said he is still doing the investigation and development. However, the house burning incident because of lax incense deadly fire was the second time that happened in Bangli. For that citizens should be aware and be careful so that the same incident is not repeated. (Kmb17)

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The picture shows the damage forest. The lack of awareness of the people in preserving the environment will cause many problems such as natural disasters.

Allegedly, Kemangi Restaurant is illegal Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Kemangi Restaurant located in the Plaza Bali, Simpang Siur, Kuta, is alleged to have no license or illegal. The management is suspected to outsmart the licensing, one of them is by using the Building Permit (IMB) of Plaza Bali for its own sake. Even, Kemangi Restaurant has been in operation since September 2009.

Two sources of this newspaper said Kemangi Restaurant had been in operation for nine months without a permit, starting from the IMB to operating permit. Again, he said the matter had been reported to the government either to the Office of Housing, Planning and Urban Development (DCK) of Badung Regency, Permit Services or to public order officers (Satpol PP) of Badung Regency. Unfortunately, these sources said, the government never followed up the earlier reports. Even, the sources mentioned the existence of a number of government officers of Badung Regency Government taking advantage of the violations.

As for the building permit, Kemangi Restaurant is one of the

restaurants within Plaza Bali building complex. To establish the restaurant, there are a number of additions or expansion of the building.

“There should be a change to the IMB. But, why did it even still use the former building permit of Plaza Bali? The owner himself had admitted not to have the IMB, but even underestimated this matter,” he said.

Furthermore, he disclosed the owner of Kemangi Restaurant was an investor from Japan. The restaurant sold Italian food having seat capacity of 150 units. Presumably, there was also expatriate worker in the restaurant having no legal working permit.

When asking for separate confirmation, Section Head of Control and Operation of Satpol PP of Badung Regency, Dewa Raka Parta, last Tuesday (Jun 8), said his party had followed up the report on the allegation of illegal operation of Kemangi Restaurant. According to him, Satpol PP Badung had made the call to the manager concerned.

Raka Parta mentioned, Kemangi Restaurant was alleged to have not had a building permit because it remained to use the building.

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At Klungkung Kertagosa and Dock Became Financial Examiner Agency’s Findings Semarapura (Bali Post)-

Financial Examiner Agency (BPK) found a gap in Sub district Kelungkung’s finance report and so they find it themselves. Some of the findings are assets to the tourist attraction Kertagosa at the city centre and building a dock in Nusa Penida.

“Yes, we heard about the findings.

Actually all the Klungkung Regional Parliamentary (DPRD) leaders were invited to BPK’s event in giving the report of the auditing,” DPRD Klungkung’s Chief, A.A. Anom stated when asked to confirm last Tuesday (8/6).

According to Agung Anom, BPK have found this all the time. The process took long and because of it Agung Anom asked responsibility from the Klungkung Region Government to be more serious in finding evidences of the assets so it won’t be another finding.

Task Manager Head of Income Agency, Region Finance and Assets Management, IGNB Putra also said yes. There is no evidence being held by the region’s government for the Kertagosa asset, evidence to neither management rights nor use rights.

When actually, on the BPK’s result

of findings, Klungkung put Kertagosa as one of the region’s assets but stated as from the kingdom.

“That evidence was asked from the BPK so there’s an explanation to the rights,” Gusti Putra explained.

It’s then admitted the rights were being processed. It’s still finding the legal base in getting a certificate and others needed to complete the certificate regulations and also preparing the statement letter made by the Regent that states Kertagosa is being managed by the region government Klungkung.

This is evidence to the management, maintenance and retribution collecting that has been done by the region government. “Making this statement letter signed by the Regent was a suggestion from the Land Property Office as a regulation in completing to get the certificate, either that certificate is for management right or use right,” Gusti Putra added.

Meanwhile, with the findings of Nusa Penida Dock asset, Gusti Putra said that it was an administration false where there is no evidence supporting it such as evidence of a handover from the centre government to the region government of Klungkung. (kmb20) IBP/edi

”Anggada Duta” Oratory Opens 32nd Bali Arts Festival

Presented By Indonesian Institute of the Arts Denpasar Denpasar (Bali Post)-

Artists of Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar preparation are almost final in presenting an oratory or a ballet colossal “Anggada Duta” to open the 32nd Bali Arts Festival (PKB) at 12th June 2010. ISI wants to perform as maximum and with quality in this ballet that involves many dancers and gamelan music players. A couple of days ago the preparation was looked over by Head of Culture Agency Bali Province, IB Sedawa and then by Bali’s Vice Governor, Pusapayoga last Tuesday (8/6). The oratory will be performed at the evening event of the festival’s opening ceremony. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to open the festival in the evening at Arda Candra open stage, Art Centre, Denpasar and also as the audience to the ballet colossal.

Vice Governor Puspayoga supported fully ISI Denpasar’s hard work in presenting their best work yet. His side believes this presentation is something special as ISI is where competition in arts exists. He’s also amazed by the dancing tricks performed for the oratory because they are hard and very advanced.

Meanwhile ISI Denpasar’s Rector, Prof. Dr. I Wayan Rai S., M.A. said the institute is maximizing their effort and quality for this performance. The Vice

Governor’s visitation has motivated the dancers and gamelan players.

The oratory Anggada Duta tells about Sri Rama, Laksamana and Wibisana were going to Swela Mountain facing Balantentara Rahwana, King of Alengka. As they got to Swelagiri, Sri Rama was amazed by the beauty of the forest with many animals living in harmony. His sadness was healed by the happiness of the monkeys lead by Sugriwa, Anoman and Anggada. Then it was spotted one monkey was different from the others. Wibisana knows the monkey was an incarnation of giant Sukasrana. Anggada then captured Sukasrana and showed it to Sri Rama.

With Rama’s command, Sukasrana was not killed but told to go back to Rahwana. Rama then told Anggada to go to Alengka to warn Rahwana to bring back Dewi Shita. At Alengka Kingdom, King Rahwana was leading a trial while waiting Sukasrana to come back. All of a sudden Anggada came and asked Rahwana to give back Sri Rama’s wife. In a drunken state, Rahwana provoked Anggada to not take Rama’s side because Anggada’s father, Subali, was killed by Rama himself. Anggada was provoked but in the end he was made aware by Rama and so Anggada wholeheartedly defended Sri Rama. (08)

Tenth of taxi drivers came to Bali Police Department on Wednesday, July 9th 2010 to ask for the reason of the arrest of their friends.

Police Search Actors behind Taxi Destroyer Kereneng, Bali Post

Police immediately called them who did such damage to dozens Blue Bird taxis in some places on Monday (7 / 6) then. ‘’Their names are already there, just waiting for the time to call them,’’ said Bali police chief Inspector General (Pol.) H. Sutisna after Kapoltabes Denpasar sertijab, on Tuesday (8 / 6) yesterday.

The two-star general asserted that it is fine if people do speeches or doing a demo, but they must obey the existing rules.

A group of people who damage the cab and lowered the passenger forcibly clear act of breaking the rules. Moreover, they lowered the passenger strangers, because it can have an impact on tourism in Bali.

Head of Bali Police Public Relations Kombes (Pol.) Gede Sugianyar added, until yesterday recorded about 25 taxis which destroyed the mass. Denpasar Poltabes it together now to find the mastermind behind

Blue Bird Taxi vandalism cases, including the persecutor and destroyer of the camera reporters. ‘’This has lead to anarchy, because the demo is done out of the corridors of law,’’ he explained.

The police certainly will process the case as it relates to criminal acts of vandalism. In addition to destruction, clearly Kombes Sugianyar, the anarchist masses also do not praiseworthy because there forced them down a stranger in the cab. ‘’Whoever is involved, we will act firmly. It is classed as an anarchist,’’ he asserted.

Now his team is gathering evidence in order to determine those who participate in the anarchy act to be suspected. In fact, the police already have full evidence to bring perpetrators of vandalism to the police station.

‘’We’re still waiting for his intellectual actor,’’ Bali Police spokesman pointed out the origin of Tabanan.

It also will act in accordance with legal boundaries. If the evidence is complete, then the arrests are carried out immediately.

As reported earlier, dozens of Blue Bird taxi that pass on Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai, Pesanggaran, Densel, and at other locations, defaced by a mass on Monday (7 / 6) yesterday.

Prior held a demonstration in front of the governor’s office in Renon Bali, the mass had blockaded Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai, Pesanggaran, with cars parked in the middle of the road and damaged a number of Blue Bird Taxi.

(By DenPost)

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China farmer uses cannon to fight eviction Agenec France Presse

BEIJING – A farmer in central China has turned his home into a fort equipped with a homemade cannon and fireworks to fight off government eviction in an ongoing land dispute, state media said Wednesday.

Yang Youde, 56, has twice repelled government-backed demolition crews in Hubei province by firing the cannon and peppering workers with fireworks, the Beijing News said.

Yang manufactured his arsenal with used stove pipes and 2,000 yuan (300 dollars) worth of fireworks, it said. His cannon can fire projectiles up to 100 metres (yards), it said.

“I’m a law-abiding citizen, I don’t believe these fireworks can kill,” Yang said in an interview.

“I must protect my rights. I believe that the lower-level officials

are out to harm the people, but higher-level leaders are enlightened,” he said.

“I’m a farmer. My whole life depends on farming. If I surrender, I have nowhere to go.” In the latest confrontation in May, workers beat Yang up after he ran out of fireworks, the report said.

China has witnessed a surge of violent confrontations triggered by land seizures as officials and businesses seek to cash in on a nationwide property boom by evicting residents and developing their land.

In late April, a Communist Party official in Henan province was detained after he ordered a truck driver to run over a protester in a land dispute. The protester was killed.

In another case, a 47-year-old woman set herself on fire in November in Sichuan province over the planned demolition of her husband’s garment-processing business. She died 16 days later.

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Supporters hold pictures of a magazine cover of President-elect Sen. Benigno Aquino III

Aquino proclaimed Philippines’ 15th president AP

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Congress proclaimed Benigno Aquino III the country’s new president Wednesday amid high hopes he will fulfill his campaign promise to eliminate corruption and poverty and restore trust in government.

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Chinese farmer Yang Youde fires his homemade cannon on his farm on the outskirts of Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province. Yang has turned his home into a fort equipped with a homemade cannon and fireworks to fight off government eviction in an ongoing land dispute.

A joint session by the Senate and House of Representatives voted to formalize the landslide victory of the son of the country’s revered democracy icons — Benigno Aquino Jr. and former President Corazon Aquino — after the Philippines’ first national automated elections last month.

Aquino will take his oath as the country’s 15th president on June 30, succeeding Gloria Macapagal Arroyo whose nine-year rule has been wracked by four coup attempts by mutinous troops, and opposition impeachment bids over allegations of election fraud, corruption scandals and human rights abuses.

The official congressional count ended Tuesday showing Aquino de-

feating his eight rivals by more than 15 million votes — about 5.7 million ahead of his closest opponent, ousted leader Joseph Estrada.

Estrada’s running mate, Jejomar Binay, the mayor of Manila’s financial district Makati, will become vice president after defeating Aquino’s candidate, Manuel Roxas II, in the separate race for the number two position.

Supporters of Aquino and Binay who packed the House gallery erupted into loud cheers and applause after the announcements.

In a statement, Estrada congratulated his “good friend and worthy opponent.”

“I join the Filipino people in extending my wholehearted support to

the 15th president of the republic under whose leadership the country now looks to the future, together with my running mate Jejomar Binay with the highest hopes that they will serve our country faithfully,” he said.

Aquino, a quiet legislator who served nine years as a congressman and three years as senator, will inherit a nation grappling with poverty and debilitated by decades-long Marxist and Muslim insurgencies, military unrest, corruption, violent crime and political strife.

The 50-year-old bachelor campaigned largely on his family name and promised to follow the legacy of his parents, who are regarded as heroes in the country’s democratic struggle against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.

It was only after his mother died of cancer last August that he decided to run, spurred by the massive outpouring of national grief for the leader who helped oust Marcos in 1986.

Malaysia princes end unusual feud over luxury car AP

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Two Malaysian princes reached an out-of-court settlement Wednesday to end a spat over who had the right to use a Bentley luxury car owned by their father, a lawyer said.

The dispute between the sons of Sultan Tengku Ismail Petra has embarrassed the royal household of Malaysia’s eastern Kelantan

state and aggravated a recent power struggle among palace figures while the sultan was stricken by a heartrelated illness.

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra, the sultan’s third son, filed a lawsuit against his eldest brother, Tengku Muhammad Faris, in September to seek a court declaration that he had the right to use a Bentley Brooklands car worth 1.6 million ringgit ($480,000).

Fakhry alleged he had paid for the

car in 2008 for his own and his father’s use, even though the sultan was registered as the official owner. In July, representatives of Faris took away the car while Fakhry was abroad and refused to return it to him.

Fakhry’s lawyer, Haaziq Pillay, told the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Wednesday that Fakhry was withdrawing his suit on the wishes of his father, who will determine who gets to use the car.

Haaziq said Fakhry managed to

use the car recently and has no objections if his brother also wants to use it.

Faris did not explain why he seized the car, but insisted in a court statement earlier this year that Fakhry’s lawsuit was “frivolous.”

Kelantan’s royal household is one of nine in various states in Malaysia, where hereditary royal rulers are widely respected among the Muslim Malay majority. However, their responsibilities are largely ceremonial,

and executive power to rule lies with elected state and national representatives.

Sultan Ismail’s illness over the past year has resulted in a tussle between his sons and their allies for influence over palace decisions and, potentially, succession to the throne. The feud spilled into the public eye, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of royal households that generally enjoy immense privacy and privilege.

International IMIGRATION Australian Consulate General Jalan Tantular 32 Renon Denpasar Phone: +62 361 241118 Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

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HOSPITAL Denpasar There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners Denpasar General Hospital (RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongaya and Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.

HOSPITAL Bangli Bangli General Hospital Jl. Kesumayuda 27, Bangli Phone : +62 366 91521 Gianyar

Royal Danish & Norwegian Mimpi Resort Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 070 The Czech Republic Jalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.286 465 France Consulate Agency Jalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.285 485 The Federal Republic of Germany Jalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.288 535 The Republic of Hungary Jalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.287 701 Italian Consulate Jalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 005 Honorary Consulate of Mexico Jalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.223 266 Honorary Consulate of The Netherlands Jalan Raya Kuta 127, Bali Phone +62.361.761 506 Honorary Consulate of Spain Komplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. Jalan Patih Jelantik Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.769 286 USA Consulate Agency Jalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.222 426 Consulate General of Japan Jalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.227 628 Honorary Consulate of British Jalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.270 601 Swiss and Austria Consulate Jalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan Istana Galleria Phone +62.361.751 735 Honorary Consulate of Brazil Jalan Legian No. 186, Bali Phone +62.361.757 775 Honorary Consulate of Thailand Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.263 310 Embassy of India Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.241 978 Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf Finland Segara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.282 223 Honorary Consulate of Malaysia Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.752 520

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Its facilities have improved since the emergency ward had been built in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become a problem anymore since it has complete equipments. It is located on Jl. Kesehatan Selatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with : Phone : 227 911 – 15 Fax : 226 363 Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters for less serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, anemia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equipped to care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl. Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.

Phone : 223 036 Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit) Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.

Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private) Jl. Sudirman No 50, Denpasar Phone : 227 560, 234 824 In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medical evacuation company, that is: AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.

PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No. 24X, Kuta 80361.

Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768 One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that the Blood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh) Negative blood.

Badung Bali Medical Clinics There are some medical clinics that are well known by foreigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and operated : Bali International Medical Center (BIMC) Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excellent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Services for tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.

Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance & Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone : 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta, Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com International SOS Clinic Bali Opened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visitors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-hour emergency medical service.

Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - Indonesia Phone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919 E-mail : info@sos-bali.com ttp ://www.sos-bali.com Bali Nusa Dua Emergency Clinic Jl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324 Kuta Clinic Jl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268 Dental Clinic Dr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, Denpasar Phone : 222 445, 234 375 DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81 Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324 Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4A Br. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

Clinic Mas Jl. Raya Mas, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974573 Toyo Clinic Jl. Pengosekan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 978078 Permata Bunda Clinic Jl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 942082 Ubud Clinic Jl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974911 Gianyar General Hospital Jl. Ciung Wanara 2, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 943049 Karangasem Karangasem General Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai, Karangasem Phone : +62 363 21001 Klungkung Klungkung General Hospital Jl. Flamboyan 40-4, Klungkung Phone : +62 366 21371 Negara Negara General Hospital Jl. Gelar, Negara Phone : +62 365 41006 Tabanan Laboratorium Clinic Jl. Gunung semeru No. 8, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 819260 Mengwi Clinic Jl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 880550 Darma Kerti Hospital Jl. Teratai 16, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 812359 Tabanan General Hospital Jl. Pahlawan 14, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 811027 Singaraja Prodia Clinic Jl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 24-516 Singaraja Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 22-573 Pet Clinics Kayumas: (0361) 226934 Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121 Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018 Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518 Sidakarya: (0361) 724492 Pedungan: (0361) 720026

TAXIS Praja Taxi : (0361) 289090 Bali Taxi : (0361) 701111 Ngurah Rai Taxi : (0361) 724724 Pan Wirthi Taxi : (0361) 723366 Komotra Taxi : (0361) 758855

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Iran hangs four rapists, drug trafficker: report AFP

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran has hanged four men convicted of rape and another man found guilty of drug trafficking in Tehran, government newspaper Iran reported on Wednesday.

The men hanged on Tuesday were identified as Mehdi, 33, convicted of raping at least two teenage boys, an unnamed 21-year-old man who had raped a retarded 22-year-old woman two years ago, and two other unnamed men who had broken into a house late at night and raped a woman.

The drug trafficker who was also hanged on Tuesday was identified as Masoud, 33, convicted of smuggling eight kilogrammes (17 pounds) of heroin, the report said.

The hangings bring to at least 79 the number of people put to death in Iran so far this year, according to an AFP count based on news reports. Last year, at least 270 people were hanged.

Murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and adultery are all punishable by death in Iran.

A judicial official ties ropes before a public execution in 2002.

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21 wedding guests die in India bus crash AFP

NEW DELHI (AFP) – At least 21 members of a wedding party were killed on Wednesday when a bus in which they were travelling rammed into a tree in eastern India, reports said.

Eighteen people were declared dead at the scene and

three other passengers died in a local hospital, the Press Trust of India news agency quoted police in Jharkhand state as saying.

The accident occurred when the bus driver lost control of his vehicle and veered off the road, state police officer Sanjay Ranjan told PTI. About 20 people in the bus were also injured.

Indian boy with eight limbs has successful surgery Agence France Presse

BIHAR – An Indian boy with eight limbs whose veneration as a god propelled him in to the public spotlight has been operated on to give him the chance of a normal life, his father said Wednesday.

Deepak Paswan, 7, was born in one of the least developed parts of India with a parasitic twin conjoined to his abdomen, which meant he had four legs and four arms but one head.

Hindu pilgrims from the area near his village in the northern state of Bihar used to visit the household to worship him as an incarnation of the god Vishnu, who is often depicted with more than four limbs.

His family, uncomfortable with the attention, appealed publicly for help in March to secure an operation to have the unwanted limbs removed.

Their wish was granted on May 30 in a hospital in the southern city of Bangalore which bore the cost of the complicated and dangerous procedure.

“We always wanted surgery to remove the parasitic twin to get rid of him being treated as a religious object by people,” his father, Viresh Paswan, told AFP by telephone. “My dream has come true, now we will celebrate it after returning to my village.”

The father, a low-caste construction worker in his mid-30s, called the four-hour operation a “miracle” and said his son would now be able to go to school “like any boy of his age”.

Deepak’s story mirrors that of Lakshmi Tatma, a girl from Bihar who was born with four arms and four legs but who was successfully operated on in 2007.

She was also treated as a rare child with divine powers before she was operated on, a hospital bearing the cost of the 50,000-dollar surgery.

Her remarkable story made her famous worldwide and she was the subject of television documentaries and newspaper articles in countries across the globe.

The Fortis Hospital in Bangalore said a team of 15 doctors worked on Deepak’s case and after months of consultations went ahead with the complicated surgery.

“He is 100 percent fit,” said chief surgeon Ramcharan Thiagrajan, adding that doctors faced a challenge to ensure his intestines functioned correctly in the long run.

“Due to all the mockery and stigma he has faced he is very restless and nervous. But now after this successful operation and counselling he will lead a normal life.”

A parasitic twin occurs when a twin embryo begins to develop in the mother, but ultimately does not separate. This results in a semiformed twin adjoined to the body of the developed twin.

(AFP)

In this undated photograph, Deepak Paswan is seen at Fortis Hospital in Bangalore before surgery. Paswan, an Indian boy with eight limbs whose veneration as a god propelled him in to the public spotlight, has been operated on to give him the chance of a normal life, his father said Wednesday.

Militants...

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Indian villagers ride on a bus passing through the village of Janar in Sitamarhi

For months, the military pounded Orakzai with airstrikes, eventually staging a ground operation as well.

The offensive intensified in March, with the reported daily death tolls of suspected militants sometimes in the dozens.

Information from the region has been nearly impossible to verify independently because Orakzai is remote, dangerous and access to it is severely restricted.

The army said June 1 that Orakzai had been cleared of militants and that fleeing civilians could expect to return home soon. More than 200,000 people

are believed to have poured out of the area since the end of last year.

The U.S. has praised Pakistan for pursuing army operations against militant groups on its territory. In part, that’s because it does not want Pakistan to be a sanctuary for militants battling U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Also Wednesday, government official Maqsood Khan said militants attacked two security checkpoints in Mohmand, another part of the tribal belt that has endured army operations. The overnight attack sparked gunbattles that killed two soldiers and six insurgents and wounded several from both sides.

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Indonesian capital warns workers over World Cup Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Civil servants in Indonesia’s football-mad capital Jakarta have been warned of pay cuts if they turn up late to work during the World Cup, a spokesman said Tuesday.

FOTO ANTARA/Fanny Octavianus

Activists from Bendera organization collecting donation to held People Congress at Diponegoro Street on Wednesday, June 9, 2010. The donation from the people will be used to hold a congress at Bali on 21 to 23 July. The congress will discuss the problems in Indonesia that not yet have been solved.

RI committed to continuing struggle for independent Palestine Antara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Tuesday the Indonesian government was committed to continuing its struggle for an independent and sovereign Palestinian state.

“The government will continue its diplomatic struggle to ensure the creation of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state,” presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal quoted the president as telling Palestinian Ambassador to Indonesia Fariz Al Mehdawi during a meeting with five repatriated Indonesian volunteers at the state palace.

The five were among 12 Indonesian volunteers who had been on the convoy of humanitarian aid ships to the Gaza Strip attacked by Israeli forces last May 31.

Al Mehdawi meanwhile expressed gratitude to the Indonesian

government and people for their support in the form of capacity building, financial assistance and diplomacy.

He said President Yudhoyono‘s commitment to supporting the creation of an independent Palestinian state gave his country inspirations.

The support made Palestine stronger and feel that it was not alone in struggling for its independence, he said.

He also said the Palestinian president had highly appreciated the 12 Indonesian volunteers who had joined the freedom flotilla humanitarian mission.

All the roughly 700 volunteers from more than 30 countries including Indonesia aboard the aid ship Mavi Marmara attacked by the Israeli navy had been granted Palestinian citizenship, he said.

Asked what he thought of the Medical Emergency Rescue Com-

mittee (Mer-C)‘s plan to send a number of volunteers to Gaza aboard an Iranian Red Crescent ship under the escort of Iranian troops, he said sooner or later the Israel‘s blockade of the Gaza Strip would end.

The five Indonesian volunteers were chairman of the Indonesian Committee for Palestine Solidarity (KISPA) Ferry Nur, Muhendri Muchtar (vice chairman), Hardjito Warno (member), Muhammad Yasin (journalist) and Okvianto Baharudin (KISPA member).

They arrived at Jakarta‘s Soekarno-Hatta international airport from Amman, Jordan, at around 3.35 pm. on Monday.

One of the five repatriated volunteers, Okvianto, was wounded during the Israeli troops‘ attack.

Meanwhile, another wounded Indonesian volunteer, Surya Fachrizal, was still in a hospital in Amman.

Japan needs 117 nurses from Indonesia Antara

BANDUNG - Japan needs 117 nurses from Indonesia in 2010 to work in various hospitals and nursing houses in the East Asia country, an envoy said.

Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Kajiro Shiojiri made the statement in an opening ceremony of training course for would-be nurses and caregivers, at the Indonesian Education University (UPI), in Bandung, according to an e-mailed press release from the National

Agency of Indonesian Manpower Protection and Placement, here, Wednesday.

The governments of Indonesia and Japan have signed Indonesia-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (IJEPA), stating, among other things, that Japan needs one thousand nurses to work in the country‘s hospitals and caregivers to work in nursing houses.

The Japanese ambassador said his country would need more caregivers for nursing houses than nurses for hospitals as Japan‘s

population of old ages is increasing in line with the improvement in the people‘s live expectancy rate.

Ambassador Shiojiri said his nation would need nurses until five years to come, and the cooperation problem would be evaluated.

The government of Japan hoped that scholarship providers such as The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) of Japan, would help better prepare intellectual and skills of Indonesia‘s wouldbe nurses.

With games from South Africa due to be televised into the wee hours of the morning, city spokesman Cucu Ahmad Kurnia said there would be zero tolerance for lateness.

“Imagine if football lovers come late every day to the office, how much money will we lose during the month-long World Cup?” he told AFP in the Southeast Asian metropolis of up to 20 million people.

The administration has put the city’s 80,000 municipal workers on notice that they will be fined five percent of their performance al-

lowances — often higher than basic salaries — for every day they are late, Kurnia said.

“There won’t be any exceptions.

Everybody likes football and they’re free to stay up until dawn, but they have no choice but to come to work as usual,” he said.

The cuts would be applied under measures introduced in January to link workers’ performances to pay.

The city will not have to worry about workers staying up late to watch the national team — 137thranked Indonesia did not make the finals.

Tax: Indonesia ranked as implementing international information standards Antara

JAKARTA - Indonesia is now ranked in the category of jurisdictions that have substantially implemented internationally agreed tax standards, according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)‘s report received by ANTARA here Wednesday.

The OECD pointed out that the rank for Indonesia along with Brazil was considered as a result of details provided to the recent Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.

The organization said it had updated its progress report, first issued in conjunction with the G20 London summit in April 2009, to take account of communications from Brazil and Indonesia on their legal and regulatory frameworks for exchange of information.

According to the information provided, Indonesia has 53 agreements that meet the standard while Brazil has more than 25 bilateral tax treaties that provide for exchange of information in tax matters to the internationally

agreed standard.The two countries joined the Global Forum last September.

A full description of the two countries legal and regulatory frameworks will be included in the Global Forum‘s ss2010 annual assessment to be published later this year, the OECD said.

As with all members of the Global Forum, both countries will undergo peer reviews of their exchange of information laws and practices, Brazil in 2011 and 2012 and Indonesia in 2011 and 2013, it said, adding that. Brazil is a member both of the Forum’s Steering Group and of its Peer Review Group.

Jeffrey Owens, Director of the OECD Center for Tax Policy and Administration, said: “We are very pleased to be able to include these two important members of the G20 within the scope of the progress report.”

Since April 2009, more than 500 bilateral tax information exchange agreements have been signed worldwide, with 28 jurisdictions joining those ranked as having substantially implemented the internationally agreed standard.

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Bali Today Archeological protection in Bali and the role of the society

Bali Post/Eka Adhyasa

Farmers start to planting the rice on planting season. The head of Bali Environmental Department, Anak Agung Alit Sastrawan, said that all hotels in Bali must use renewable energy in their daily operation to create green tourism.

Hotel in Bali should use renewable energy Antara

DENPASAR – The head of Bali Environmental Department, Anak Agung Alit Sastrawan, said that all hotels in Bali must use renewable energy in their daily operation. “The basic consideration is that we will walk toward green tourism. The destination the neglect the environment will be left behind,” he added.

The green tourism also could anticipate the energy crisis which is currently being faced by the world. Alit said that renewable energy will affect the garbage handling, water efficiency, fossil fuel efficiency, and the effort to reduce the global warming. The main target of this program is the hotel with the certain scale of business.

“The one that become the priority is the hotel business because hotel is the biggest business in Bali,” Alit said. There is great hope that all businessmen in Bali will take part in the program.

Alit explained that it is not the ambition of Bali’s Government but it is the commitment of all tourism businessmen in Bali. If Bali already could carry out the green

tourism and become the green destination, it will become a great promotion throughout the world.

Alit said that the current tourism trend has shifted and the fancy hotels is not enough to attract tourists. “The hotels must know how to use the water and how to handle garbage such as Melia Bali hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali,” he added.

Archeological protection through maintenance, preservation and conservation, even through reconstruction as well, has turned to be an international problem not only today, but actually in the future.

Such matters were indicated by the activities of UNESCO as an international institution, who concerned with the most important of world cultural heritage e.g. archeological remains. UNESCO have done a lot of excellent work, which need a reasonable budgets, expert, equipment etc. and the best example is the safeguarding of Brobudur temple. As the UNESCO member, our governments are concerned and responsible to protect our monuments for our national interest, such as Brobudur temple.

Based on the development of archaeological studies and the related studies especially in field of archaeological protection, now such problems is a technical matter and besed on scientific consideration. Facing such problem , Indonesian government have done a number of works e.g the safeguarding of borobudur tample {in cooperation with {UNESCO}, Prambanan tample ,Demak mosque, and other tamples in Bali namely Pura Besakih ,Pura Mengening , Pura Pegulingan , Pura Taman Sari etc. In this case, our government as one of the ASEAN countries have carried out a coordinate programmers through SPAFA (Sub project of archaeology and fine art) to find out the effective ways and means dealing with the problems of archaeological protection .

Discussing the archaeological protection in Bali, it should be remembered that Bali, even a very small island, but has a lot of archaeological monuments, which most of them belonged to living monuments. Among them are a number of Hindu tample, spreated nearly in the whole island, as well as Hindu stastues , inscription etc.

As the holy monuments for Balinese society, so the Balinese have the responsibility to take care their monuments as their religious function Officially, archaeological protection in Bali is done by Bali Office for Preservation of archaeological and Historical Heritage (Kantor Bali Suaka pening-gelang Sejarah dan Purbakala Bali) in coordialnation and corporation with the local government and local people as well. This office have done a lot of archaeological reconstruction, but not yet covered the whole of them, because of the limited budgets etc.

In case of protecting the archaeological monuments in Bali, Bali Office for Preservation of ar-

chaeological and Historical Heritage has given a technical guidance to the local people for reconstructing their monuments and financial support as well. As the governments have a very limited budget for these works, and as the owner of the living monuments, so the Balinese people have their religious tasks and responsibility to protect sacred monuments. In Bali generally each village have three village temples named Pura Kyayangan Tiga e.g Pura Puseh,Pura Desa (sometime combined with Pura Bale Agung ) and Pura dalem. Among them are belonged to archaeological monuments and frequently in these temple a number of archaeological monuments are preserved such as statues, inscription etc. It is important to note here that the unity of the Balinese society is tightly bounded by the village temples and social organization.

Based on religious reasons, actuality Balinese society has a strong spirit to keep their monuments in a well condition as holy monuments. Since a very long time the Balinese people have maintained and restored their monuments in a very traditional ways, based on their own religious will and spirit, and for this purpose they collected the materials, even reasonable money from the village members. The village members, especially the skilled members (Balinese, undagi) did the restoration and led by the village leader, without any payment (Balinese, ngayah). This mutual model of works named gotong royong is one of the Indonesian spirits, which has been developed since the early time until today.

It is a remarkable fact since the early time Balinese people have done the archeological protection in their traditional ways, which really should be regarded as a community based conservation. The most important meaning of these facts is the Balinese have done their religious task, which still continued from one generation to next generation and still retained until today. Therefore these facts indicated that the Balinese people from time to time have played important role for protecting their archeological monuments, for worshipping their ancestor’s spirit, the Hindu Trinity as well as their local deities. It is hoped that this religious traditions should be keep in people’s mind and increased, now and in the near future for the safeguarding the archeological monuments and its cultural values. Through this way it is hoped that our cultural identity could be preserved in the people’s mind for facing the forthcoming modern world. (BTN)

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Balinese Culture

Balinese Making Art Creativity Your holiday to Bali will be more special in this month. Apart from enjoying the nature of Bali and interacting with its inhabitants, you can also watch the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) that takes place for a month. This annual event has been performed since 32 years ago.

The late cultural observer Ida Bagus Mantra initiated BAF when he was the governor of Bali. It aimed at preserving the Balinese arts and culture that is inspired by Hinduism. In addition, BAF constitutes a medium for the young generation to recognize and know more about Balinese arts and culture.

As a world tourist destination, BAF activity in Bali is expected to have the capability of being one major tourist attraction. By tourist visits it’s expected that the creativity of Balinese community will flourish in creating various kinds of arts and eventually be able to improve their standard of life.

The time of BAF execution is chosen June-July because it is a long school holiday and high season for foreign tourists. BAF 2010 takes place on 12 June-10 July. The Art Center Denpasar, BAF programs are also dispersed throughout the regencies and cities all over Bali. Hence, wherever you go in Bali you still can watch the BAF. How can the Balinese be so stiffened with art creativity? This matter is inseparable from the existence of Balinese predecessors from time immemorial that had instinct to always

improve their civilization. Various historical remains that today become tourist objects prove that Balinese arts and culture grows variously in accordance with the demand of Balinese human life that constitutes gratitude on God’s generosity. They also maintain their life harmony with nature and reinforce the menyama braya (brotherhood) relationship in the life of social community.

As farmers for instance, in achieving spiritual and bodily balance, they venerate the Goddess Sri as the symbol of fecundity. Or a fisherman that relies on the sea will worship the Lord Varuna, Lord of wind and so forth that can ensure the safety of their life. Similarly, it is also accompanied with recital of mantra that can summon psychic spirit that has been believed to come true.

In the past, the function of arts was more emphasized on the interest of religious ceremonies, either at temples or royal palaces. The art of dancing, playing gamelan and painting for instance, indeed presented to accompany the ritual procession, painting for temple ornaments, royal residences and the house of punggawa (royal official of high rank). Thus, artists can understand the secret of work conception as presentation and work as medium to make them closer to the Almighty God. Today, the Balinese make art creativity not only intended for the needs of ritual at temple or sanctum but also for tourist entertainment. Dissimilar forms of Balinese arts grow and develop following the dynamic of the

tourism industry.

Several art items as mass products are made to cater the needs of tourism.

Its price can be inexpensive at art shop or tourist objects provided that you are good at bargaining. Just as the making of a number of creation dances with movement and modern technological touch that are really inappropriate to be presented at temples or sacred place.

Sometimes, the paileh (storyline) of the dance and gamelan that is presented at hotel or tourism object are cut to be adjusted with the short time visits of tourist and hotel party’s can pay the artists cheaply.

Balinese arts are generally classified into three: (1) wali arts, special sacred arts that are earmarked for ritual purpose and may not be performed at any places like Wayang Lemah, Sidakarya Mask, Sang Hyang Dedari and so on; (2) bebali art, namely arts that are staged at jaba pura (outermost courtyard of the temple) in relation to complete the ritual procession and entertain the devotees that carry out the ceremony—the artists are totally ngayah (without honorarium), they are just provided with food and drink; (3) balih-balihan art, namely art that is staged that has not something to do with the ritual and merely intended for entertainment like art performed at hotels, village meeting halls or arenas of Bali Arts Festival. The artists received reasonable honorarium. Prior to the performance, they make an agreement on honorarium with the organizing committee. (BTN/*)

Increasing visit to tourist object at academic yearend Bali Post

GIANYAR - Since last week, the number of visits to some tourist objects in Gianyar Regency has increased. It is caused by schools in Bali and outside Bali has entered academic yearend holidays in this June. Those schools organized a joint outing with students by selecting historical objects in Gianyar Regency.

Based on monitoring on last Tuesday (June 8), favorite destinations

thronged by tourist visits were like Tirta Empul, Gunung Kawi, as well as antiquities objects in the region of Pejeng, Tampaksiring and Goa Gajah tourist attraction located at Bedulu Village, Blahbatuh subdistrict, Gianyar. During this school holidays, Goa Gajah tourist attraction received increasing tourist visits. Parking lot of the tourist destination turned overloaded by large buses carrying student tourists. Meanwhile, police officers from the tourism police unit of Gianyar were kept busy direct-

Bali Post/Agung Dharmada

Local tourists crowded at Goa Lawah. Since last week, the number of visits to some tourist objects in Gianyar Regency has increased. It is caused by schools in Bali and outside Bali has entered academic yearend holidays in this June.

ing the traffic and watching the convenience of visitors on site.

Selection of this tourist attraction, of course, was very positive. Other than serving as recreational activities, students could also learn about the existence of the archeological objects and history on the former grandeur of Bali.

On that account, they will not forget their history existing in the midst of globalization development today.

Students visiting these tourist attractions are starting from the circles of kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school to high school. Accompanied by respective coach who are also their teachers, a part of those schools also filled their trip with learning activities. In each visit, students were required to make a paper concerning with the history of visited objects. On the other hand, there were also tourists visiting the objects just for having a promenade while enjoying holiday by the end of the school academic year.

“Those making a visit are school students coming from Bali only,” said one of the peddlers at Bedulu. The arrival of those visitors was indeed becoming a lively blessing for peddlers in the region of Goa Gajah, Bedulu. (kmb16)

SIAP MEPANGGANG (Grilled Chicken)

OVERVIEW: This is one of Bali’s most traditional dishes and plays an important role in many ceremonies.

INGREDIENTS: 4 baby chickens, each 400 gr (13 oz) 1 cup chicken spice paste 2½ cup coconut milk 3¼ cups chicken stock 4 stalks lemon grass, bruised 4 salam leaves 2 lemon leaves 1 tbsp salt 1 tbsp black peppercorns, crushed

PREPARATION: Cut along the backbone of chicken, open butterfly style and flatten. Heat heavy saucepan, add spice paste and sauté for 2 minute over low heat.

Add, chicken stock, lemon grass, salam leaves, lemon leaves and bring to boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Add coconut cream, bring to boild, season with salt and pepper. Add chickens and simmer until three-quarters cooked, turning chicken frequently.

Remove from fire and cool chicken in the sauce to room temperature. Remove chicken from sauce and dry well in open airy place for 30 minutes. Grill over charcoal until dark golden brown. Grilled chicken tastes best when served with peanut sauce, steamed rice and vegetables.

Helpful hints : The chickens can be simmered in coconut milk and then deep-frozen until required. Be sure to dry them thoroughly after defrosting, either in an airy place or in front of a fan, before frying. (www.baliguide.com/ balifood)

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Denpasar City

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DENPASAR City is a capital of Bali Province since 1960 up to now where previously it was a capital of Badung Empire which is controlling the south part region of Bali Island from the end of 18 century until conquered by Dutch in 1906. Denpasar is a place for Bali Governor’s office therewith all offices from private sector until important government office like telecommunications, post office, bank, airline and hospital.

The word of Denpasar is mean in north of market. It is a fast growing town especially since the tourism industry growth around 1960. Denpasar is populated by 561.814 people. Gajah Mada Street is main road in this town as the shopping centre and the edge of this street, exactly in the middle of crossroad had been built a statue which is called Catur Muka Statue. Caur Muka Statue is a statue owning four faces by observing four directions from north, south, east and west.

This statue is made on 1972 and it’s building to commemorate the Badung War on 20 September 1906 which is well known as Puputan Badung.

The courtyard which is located in the south east of Catur Muka Statue is named Puputan Badung Field where the Badung

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King with its people had battled until him dead against the Dutch colonist. In north side of Puputan Badung is standing up the office which is called Jaya Sabha that is an official office for Bali’s Governor accepts the important guest for having dinner while enjoying the Balinese Culture Show. In eastside of Puputan Badung, it had been built a Hindu temple on 1968 that is called Jagatnatha Temple. This Temple is a public temple to worship Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa / God. Especially each full moon, The Hindu people in Denpasar come to this place in particular at the evening time. In south side of this temple, there is Bali Museum built on 1931 by architect of Curt Grundler. Its architecture is a combination between temple and empire palace. This Museum contains the artistic object collection or artifact from prehistoric era until modern-day.

Another place is becoming tourist destination is Puri Pamecutan/Pamecutan Palace. There are lodgings for the tourist accommodations are available in this palace.

This palace is rebuilt as according to its geniuses after broken by Dutch soldier on 1906 and in this palace is kept a set famous Gold Gamelan as empire heritage. (www.balistarisland.com)

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BUSINESS IMF warns Asia of spillovers from European crisis

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SINGAPORE - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Asia on Wednesday of potential spillovers from the European debt crisis, which is unfolding a decade after the region underwent its own financial turmoil.

“Adverse developments in Europe could disrupt global trade, with implications for Asia given the still important role of external demand,” IMF deputy managing director Naoyuki Shinohara told a forum in Singapore.

On the financial front, he said major credit problems could result in a “significant spillover” through funding channels, especially where banks depend on wholesale funding.

The crisis has also increased the potential for uncertainty and volatility in the outlook for capital flows, Shinohara said at the forum hosted by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the de facto central bank.

He said Asia’s bright growth prospects, together with low interest rates in major economies, would likely attract more capital that could “lead to risks of overheating in some economies if appropriate policy action is not taken.

“On the other hand, further increases in global risk aversion could see capital flows change direction quickly.”

Asia underwent a severe financial crisis in the late 1990s after a

lending spree triggered currency volatility, resulting in the collapse of banks and companies across the world’s most populous region.

The region also suffered from the global recession triggered by the US housing market collapse two years ago, but is now leading the recovery.

Shinohara called on Asian governments to be wary of the potential risks from the European crisis and be prepared to take appropriate action.

“The key will be for policymakers to keep an eye on the bigger picture and be ready to act swiftly as developments unfold,” he said.

“With Asia’s economic muscle growing, the policy choices made in this region will have an important impact on the global economy,” he said.

Greece is at the epicentre of a mounting debt crisis that threatens to spread across the eurozone and has pulled down the currency to four-year lows against the dollar and eight year lows against the yen.

Shinohara said there was a risk that sovereign debt problems being experienced in some eurozone coun-

tries could spill over to others.

He said the strong fiscal position of most Asian economies provided the “space” to respond flexibly to the European crisis.

“In the event of spillovers from Europe, there is ample room in most Asian economies to pause the withdrawal of fiscal stimulus.”

In a question-and-answer session, Shinohara said “we need to watch the situation very carefully and take actions as necessary.”

Shinohara reiterated earlier comments by IMF chief Dominique Straus-Kahn that there was little cause for concern over Hungary’s fiscal woes, which have been placed in the spotlight after comments by two senior political figures in Budapest on the state of the national coffers.

“I think the situation is much calmer and there is not much to worry about at this moment,” Shinohara said.

The IMF sent its new mission chief for Hungary, Christoph Rosenberg, to Budapest on Monday to discuss the economic situation and prospects.

Bank of England set to sit tight despite high inflation Agence France-Presse

LONDON - The Bank of England is set to keep its key interest rate at a record-low 0.50 percent on Thursday after a meeting of policymakers despite higher-thanexpected inflation, analysts said.

The BoE is also widely expected to avoid revisiting its socalled quantitative easing policy, under which it has pumped 200 billion pounds (241 billion euros, 288 billion dollars) of new money into the economy.

“In common with what appears to be all commentators, we expect policy to remain on hold, with the bank rate frozen at 0.5 percent and the QE target held at 200 billion pounds,” said Investec Securities analyst Philip Shaw.

Although recent official data showed British annual inflation hit a 17-month high in April, Bank of

S.E. Asia eyes nuclear energy to meet power demand

England governor Mervyn King blamed temporary factors and forecast the figure would drop this year.

Consumer Price Index (CPI) annual inflation, the government’s target measure, hit 3.7 percent last month for the highest level since November 2008, according to the Office for National Statistics.

April’s rate compared with 3.4 percent in March, while market expectations had been for a rise to 3.5 percent. The BoE is tasked by the government with trying to keep the rate at 2.0 percent.

“Despite consumer price inflation spiking up to 3.7 percent in April — nearly double its 2.0 percent target level — the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee is still oddson to keep its key interest rates down at 0.50 percent for a 16th successive month at the conclusion of their June meeting on Thursday,” said Howard

Archer, chief Britain economist at IHS Global Insight.

New Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday said the state of Britain’s finances was “even worse than we thought” as he warned of “painful” and unavoidable cuts to tackle the record deficit.

Fitch said that “following an unprecedented economic and financial shock, the scale of (Britain’s) ... fiscal challenge is formidable and warrants a strong medium term consolidation strategy — including a faster pace of deficit reduction than set out” in April by the previous Labour government.

The international ratings agency, looking ahead to the new government’s June 22 emergency budget, did not comment directly on the outlook for Britain’s top AAA rating but noted that debt had risen very fast since 2008.

SINGAPORE - Despite safety fears, Southeast Asia’s energy-hungry economies are exploring the nuclear option to keep up with escalating power demand in a region of more than half a billion people.

Vietnam plans to make its first nuclear plant operational in 10 years, while Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand are all exploring the feasibility of tapping atomic energy.

“Everybody wants aircon, everybody wants the latest appliances, so all these translate into demand for electricity,” says Anthony Jude, director for the energy and water division with the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Detractors point to Southeast Asia’s lack of experience in nuclear power and express doubts about the safety culture in a region prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

The Philippines built a nuclear plant in the 1970s but it was never operated commercially because of safety concerns and alleged corruption in the contract process.

But the concerns are surmountable, experts said.

“You cannot say nuclear power plants in Southeast Asia will necessarily be more dangerous than anywhere else,” said Martine Letts, deputy director with the Sydney-based Lowy Institute for International Policy.

She pointed to international institutions such as the World Association of Nuclear Operators to get Southeast Asia up to speed in nuclear power safety.

Environmental group Greenpeace believes the region would be better off tapping renewable sources such as geothermal and solar power due to its vulnerability to natural disasters.

“What’s the reason to have nuclear power plants if we have so much renewable energy potential in this region?” Arif Fiyanto, Greenpeace’s Jakarta-based regional climate and energy campaigner, told AFP. The appetite for power is certainly there, according to Jude, who told a recent seminar in Singapore that energy demand within the broader Asia-Pacific region was projected to grow an

annual 2.4 percent until 2030.

That is faster than the 1.1 percent annual growth in demand for the rest of the world.

“How are we going to meet it?” the ADB official said.

Jude said any country looking at nuclear power will have to prepare itself for the long haul.

“Basically you have to look at planning, policies, regulations... you have to train a cadet of engineers in nuclear technology, nuclear safety, nuclear policy,” he told AFP. “You got to have a cream of people in that field.”

Jude cited Vietnam as an exemplary case — authorities began the groundwork for nuclear power plants more than a decade ago.

Hanoi’s communist lawmakers approved last November the construction of the country’s first nuclear power stations with a total capacity of 4,000 megawatts.

Estimated by experts to cost 11-18 billion dollars, the initial plans call for four reactors to be built with at least one expected to be operational from 2020.

Malaysia laid out plans in May to build its first nuclear power plant by 2021 while in Singapore, the government has just started a feasibility study.

Indonesia and Thailand have also considered nuclear power stations but face strong local opposition to the siting of reactors.

A region that is overly reliant on fossil fuels needs to examine every alternative, according to Michael Quah, chief scientist with the Singapore-based Energy Studies Institute.

“My belief is that most of us should develop a more balanced view,” he said.

“Just as if you would invest in stocks, you keep a portfolio mix.

Similarly in energy, you have to keep a portfolio mix that is appropriate to the resources available in your region.”

Net electricity generation in non-industrial countries in Asia — excluding China and India — will more than double from 976 billion kilowatt hours in 2007 to 2.06 trillion kilowatt hours in 2030, according to estimates from the US Energy Information Administration.

China now has 11 nuclear power reactors in operation and is building about two dozen more. India hopes soon to gain access to US know-how under a historic civil nuclear energy pact.

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Judge says Lohan violated terms of her bail night.

Lohan was not present in court BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Tuesday, but several denials of Lindsay Lohan’s alcohol-monitor- wrongdoing were posted on the ing bracelet got her in trouble Tues- actress’ Twitter account shortly day with a judge who doubled the before and after the hastily called hearing. actress’ bail to $200,000.

Lohan’s $200,000 bail was Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel determined posted less than two hours after the Lohan violated the terms of her hearing, a move that quashed a release after a closed-door meet- bench warrant issued for the acing with the actress’ attorney and a tress’ arrest by the judge.

Lohan’s attorney, Shawn prosecutor. Revel did not detail the violation, but said her decision was Chapman Holley, issued a statemade after receiving “results” is- ment Tuesday, saying the device sued by a court-ordered alcohol indicated the “presence of a small amount of alcohol” on Sunday monitor.

District Attorney’s spokes- night.

“Having just received the report, woman Shiara Davila-Morales said it was an “alcohol-related viola- I am not in a position to speak to tion,” but did not have further de- its accuracy or validity, however Ms. Lohan maintains that she has tails.

A source familiar with Lohan’s been in complete compliance with case told The Associated Press that all of the terms of her probation and the violation was reported after the her bail,” Chapman Holley said in “Mean Girls” star appeared at the a statement.

Lohan has been required to MTV Movie Awards on Sunday wear the device since May, when she missed a court hearing. Lohan is due back in court on July 6, when Revel will decide whether Lohan has violated her probation. Lohan, 23, is facing jail time if the judge determines she has failed to comply with the terms of her probation.

The actress has received multiple chances and admonishments from the court, which extended her probation in October by a year after Lohan struggled to complete the terms in time.

At the May hearing, Revel set Lohan’s bail at $100,000, which she revoked on Tuesday. The judge also issued a bench warrant for AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file Lohan’s arrest, but that FILE - In this June 6, 2010 file photo, Lind- may be quashed if the say Lohan arrives at the MTV Movie Awards actress is able to post the new bail amount. in Universal City, Calif.

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A clip from the movie ‘Jurassic Park’. The developer is creating episodic titles based on the “Back to the Future” and “Jurassic Park” franchises

‘Back to Future,’ ‘Jurassic Park’ to become games Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Telltale Games is going back in time for a new series of video games. The developer is creating episodic titles based on the “Back to the Future” and “Jurassic Park” franchises. The popular Universal Studios film trilogies spawned several games in their heyday in the ’80s and ’90s but have been absent from the interactive realm. The as-yet-untitled Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC and Mac games are set to be released this winter.

“I think it’s a prime time to reintroduce these properties in the digital world,” said Dan Connors, CEO at Telltale Games. “Telltale Games has always set out to be a great storytelling company.

We’ve been honing our chops over the past six years, and we’re ready to take on these two iconic properties and continue to advance storytelling in games.”

Telltale Games previously created episodic games based on Aardman Animations’ Oscar-winning animated film series “Wallace and Gromit,” Steve Purcell’s comic series “Sam and Max” and Matt Chapman’s online cartoon “Homestar Runner.” The

San Rafael, Calif.-based developer approached Universal Studios when looking for inspiration for their next game series. “‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Back to the Future’ are two of our broadest and most beloved properties,” said Bill Kispert, interactive vice president at Universal Studios.

“We were very interested in bringing them into the interactive space, but they’re not exactly the kind of properties that lend themselves to the stereotypical shoot’em-up style of gameplay.”

Connors said the games, which are in the early stages of development, would tell new stories extending the “Back to the Fu-

ture” and “Jurassic Park” lore. He teased that the “Back to the Future” games ma y include a DeLorean ride back to the 1970s while the “Jurassic Park” games would be intense and add new backstories to the series’ man-versus-dinosaur mythology.

“The games are going to exist within these worlds,” said Connors. “I wouldn’t call these games sequels per se but a new interpretation of their worlds for a new medium. For one generation, it’s an introduction to these series.

For another generation, it’s a thing they can look back on and something they can share warmly with their family and friends.”

Chris Brown denied entry to UK, tour is postponed Associated Press Writer

LONDON – Britain says U.S. singer Chris Brown has been denied entry into the United Kingdom, postponing his tour.

Brown had been scheduled to perform in London, Manchester, Birmingham and the Scottish city of Glasgow but the British government’s Home Office said he had been refused a visa because of his past criminal record.

Last year Brown was sentenced to five years’ probation and six months of community service for the beating of his then-girlfriend, R&B singing sensation Rihanna.

The Home Office said Brown ap-

plied for his visa last week and should have been notified of its refusal Monday. Promoter SJM concerts said Tuesday that Brown’s tour had been postponed “due to unforeseen circumstances.”

Singer Chris Brown, seen here in Las Vegas on May 2010, has postponed a series of concerts in Britain after being refused a visa over his sentence for assaulting ex-girlfriend Rihanna.

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Picture taken in 2005 in Evreux, of the original edition of French philosopher “Rene Descartes” 1637 work “Discourse on Method”. A stolen letter written by 17thcentury thinker Descartes and found in the United States was returned to France Tuesday, ending a detective tale featuring a Google search and a thieving Italian count.

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Thinking man’s mystery:

Stolen Descartes letter returned Agence France Presse

PARIS – A stolen letter written by 17th-century thinker Descartes and found in the United States was returned to France on Tuesday, ending a detective tale featuring a Google search and a thieving Italian count.

“I am, of course, a bit amazed at what a simple search at home from your home computer late at night can bring about,” Erik-Jan Bos, a Dutch Descartes scholar who found the letter through the web, said before a handover ceremony.

The letter written by French philosopher Rene Descartes in 1641 went missing more than 150 years ago, one of a vast collection of documents stolen by an Italian count, Guglielmo Libri.

Libri, a math professor in France

in the 19th century who was also in charge of inspecting archived papers, is believed to have stolen thousands of letters and documents, selling them to collectors and booksellers.

Descartes’ letter eventually wound up in a collection at Haverford College in the US state of Pennsylvania, and the school’s administration was not aware of its theft generations earlier when Bos informed them of it.

Bos found the letter’s trace after keying the terms “autographed let-

ter” and “Descartes” into the search engine late one night in January, contacting the college immediately by email and hearing back soon after.

The letter was important not only because it was from Descartes, writing to his friend Marin Mersenne, who was acting as an editor for him as well, but also because it contained significant substance.

In the letter, the author of the famous statement “I think, therefore I am” discusses his soon to be published “Meditations on First Philosophy,” writing of potential changes, among other things. The school knew the letter was in its library’s special collections, but did not realise it was considered missing in France and had been stolen.

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Australian study finds crocodiles surf the seas Associated Press Writer

CANBERRA, Australia – Crocodiles can surf ocean currents to take long leisurely journeys across open seas in the South Pacific, a researcher said on Wednesday.

The research by a group of Australian ecologists published this week in the British Ecological Society’s “Journal of Animal Ecology” explains how the world’s largest living reptile came to occupy so many South Pacific islands despite having little stamina for swimming.

Like a surfer catching a wave, estuarine crocodiles — which can grow up to 20 feet (6 meters) — can ride currents to cross hundreds of miles (kilometers) of open sea, study author Hamish Campbell said.

The research began in 2002 in the tropics of Australia’s Queensland state and involved environmentalist and television personality Steve Irwin, the so-called Crocodile Hunter who was killed by a stingray barb off Queensland in 2006. Campbell, a University of Queensland ecologist, teamed up with government rangers and the Irwin family’s Australia Zoo to tag

27 adult crocodiles in the remote Kennedy River. They used sonar transmitters and underwater receivers to track their movements over 12 months.

Campbell said a 20-minute swim is hard work for a crocodile, so he was surprised that eight of the tagged crocodiles repeatedly took long journeys out to sea from their river home area that was more than 35 miles (60 kilometers) upstream.

“It did seem unlikely that they were swimming the entire way and when we looked at residual surface currents from satellite (images), you could see quite clearly that they were indeed following the current systems,” Campbell told The Associated Press.

One 13-foot (3.8-meter) male swam 367 miles (590 kilometers) over 25 days to another river system where it stayed for seven months before returning. “Why he went there, we have absolutely no idea, but it seems very deliberate, purposeful movements,” Campbell said.

He said the research showed that currents could carry crocodiles — which can survive for months without food or fresh water — across vast tracks of ocean.

Overtreated: Surgery too often fails for back pain Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/Jim Mone

In this photo taken Thursday, May 20, 2010, near Maple Plain, Minn., Keith Swenson, who runs a family gardening business, tills the ground between rows at a peony acreage.

WASHINGTON – “Why did they cut you?” The shocking question came from a respected spine surgeon tracked down by Keith Swenson, who was still in severe pain after an earlier back operation.

He didn’t know what to believe.

Two other surgeons had urged more operations, different ones.

And Swenson, who’s from Howard Lake, Minn., is far from alone. Even though only a fraction of people with back pain are good candidates for surgery, complicated spine operations are on the rise.

So is the hunt for any relief. By one recent estimate, Americans are spending a staggering $86 billion a year in care for aching backs — from MRIs to pain pills to nerve blocks to acupuncture. That research found little

evidence that the population got better as the bill soared over the past decade.

“The way medicine is so StarTreky these days, they believe something can be done,” said Dr. Charles Rosen, a spine surgeon at the University of California, Irvine.

The reality is that time often is the best antidote. Most people will experience back pain at some point, but up to 90 percent will heal on their own within weeks. In fact, for run-of-the-mill cases, doctors aren’t even supposed to do an X-ray or MRI unless the pain lingers for a month to six weeks.

Yet a study last year found nearly one in three aching Medicare patients get some kind of back scan within that first month.

Why is that a problem? Those scans can be misleading. By middle age, most people who don’t even have pain nonetheless have degeneration of their

disks, those doughnut-looking shock absorbers between vertebrae.

So in someone who does have pain, pinpointing that a particular black spot or bulge on a scan is the true cause is tricky. The bigger problem: When the misery lingers, there’s no one-size-fits-most treatment.

“There are a lot of procedures going on for patients in whom we don’t have good scientific evidence that it’s going to help,” said Dr. Richard Deyo of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, who long has studied how people fare with different options for this tough ailment.

For example, there’s a wide variety of spinal injections that aim to numb back pain, using different drugs and targeting different spots.

Which one works depends on what study you read.

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Torres scores in return as Spain routs Poland 6-0 Associated Press Writer

MURCIA, Spain – Fernando Torres scored in his return from mid-April knee surgery, Cesc Fabregas got a goal in his second game since breaking a leg, and European champion Spain routed Poland 6-0 Tuesday night in a World Cup warmup for its 11th straight win.

Andres Iniesta left in the 39th minute with an apparent right thigh strain. Iniesta, whose season for Barcelona was cut short when he tore a muscle in the same thigh in April, was expected to have medical scans in Barcelona on Wednesday.

Iniesta provided the pass for David Villa’s goal in the 12th minute before starting the move that led to David Silva’s goal in the 14th. Iniesta hasn’t played a full 90 minutes for Spain since February 2009. “The doctors will see, but he came off mostly as a precaution,” Spain coach Vicente del Bosque said.

Team doctor Juan Jose Garcia Cota said “it doesn’t appear to be a tear” but cautioned that only the tests will make a determination.

Torres had right knee surgery

April 18, missing the final weeks of Liverpool’s season. He replaced Villa in the 66th minute and guided Pedro Rodriguez’s pass home in the 76th.

“The injury’s passed and now I’m able to help my teammates, so it’s time to enjoy it,” Torres said. “Tomorrow, I’m sure there will be a lot of optimism and euphoria, but we know it will be difficult.”

Fabregas entered in the 56th minute and scored two minutes later, swiveling to send Xabi Alonso’s perfect through ball in off goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak. Fabregas played in last Thursday’s game against South Korea, his first match since fracturing his right leg March 31 in Arsenal’s Champions League game against Barcelona.

Xabi Alonso scored in the 51st before the goals by Fabregas and Torres made it 5-0. Pedro scored in the 81st

as Spain won its 11th straight game.

Villa is six goals shy of matching Raul Gonzalez’s Spanish national team record of 44.

Spain, which recorded its biggest home victory since an 8-0 win over Cyprus in 1999, will play Switzerland, Honduras and Chile in the first round of the World Cup. It is unbeaten since a 2-0 semifinal loss to the United States at last year’s Confederations Cup.

Spain’s forward Fernando Torres controls the ball during a WC2010 friendly football match against Poland at the Nueva Condomina stadium in Murcia, on June 8, 2010, ahead of the WC2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa.

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Brazil and Portugal must survive ‘Group of Death’ Agence France Presse

JOHANNESBURG – A highprofile casualty is inevitable in the World Cup’s Group G with Brazil, Portugal and Ivory Coast fighting for two places while North Korea concentrate on damage limitation.

Brazil have lifted the trophy that symbolises global football supremacy a record five times, Portugal finished fourth at the last tournament in 2006 and many pundits consider Ivory Coast the best African bet for glory.

And while North Korea are universally regarded as ‘cannon

fodder’, none of the 32 challengers has prepared more thoroughly than the little-known squad from the reclusive nation.

Superstars abound in the firstround ‘Group of Death’ as Brazil boast Real Madrid midfielder Kaka, while Portugal are inspired by his club teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Ivory Coast’s Didier Drogba ranks alongside them in potential impact - but the striker’s chances of playing in the first World Cup on African soil hang in the balance after an operation on a broken arm.

Portugal also suffered an injury blow when in-form Manchester United winger Nani was ruled out

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Brazil’ Kaka (R) celebrates his goal against Tanzania with teammates Daniel Alves (L) and Maicon during a WC2010 friendly football match on June 7, 2010 at the National stadium in Tanzania, ahead of the WC2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa.

of the tournament on Tuesday after severely bruising his collarbone in training.

Brazil, the only country to compete at all 19 previous tournaments, are favoured to finish first and set up a possible last-16 showdown with fellow South Americans Chile.

And the opening Group G clash on Tuesday between Ivory Coast and Portugal in Port Elizabeth could determine who else progresses with European champions Spain the probable secondround opponents for the secondplaced finisher.

North Korea will defend en masse and compete like tigers, but lack the firepower to emulate their countrymen of 1966, who defeated Italy in Middlesbrough to cause one of the great World Cup shocks.

Coach Dunga has assembled a tactically astute squad that espouses the work ethic and plays as a team with no place for the primadonna factor that cost Brazil dearly in the past. Dunga left out Ronaldinho, but Kaka is rounding into form after a poor debut season in Madrid.

Many consider Julio Cesar of Inter Milan the best goalkeeper in the world, Lucio and Juan form a solid central defence barrier, Gilberto Silva does the midfield graft and Luis Fabiano has few peers as a goal poacher.

Brazil also know South Africa well as they return with the stars who won the Confederations Cup last June, when they came from two

goals behind to pip the United States 3-2 in Johannesburg.

Portugal needed a playoff against Bosnia-Herzogovina to reach South Africa after a qualifying campaign in which midfielder-cum-striker Ronaldo failed to score in seven matches before being sidelined by injury.

Where to play the ‘golden boy’ will occupy much of coach Carlos Queiroz’s time with the options facing the former assistant to Alex

Ferguson at Manchester United including using him in a wide or central midfield role or as a lone striker.

Portugal breezed through a 3-0 warm-up victory over Mozambique Tuesday, but the match was overshadowed by the loss of Nani following an injury in training.

Queiroz though was pleased to see Real Madrid defensive midfielder Pepe back in action after six months out with a knee injury.

In-form Dutch the team to beat in Group E Agence France Presse

GEORGE – A talented Netherlands squad start as firm favourites in a tight Group E with Japan, Cameroon and Denmark set to fight for second place.

A red-hot qualifying campaign saw the Dutch sail through to the finals without dropping a point and coach Bert van Marwijk is happy with the way the draw panned out for his star-sprinkled team.

Big things are expected from the in-form ‘Oranje’, currently ranked four in the world behind Brazil, Spain and Portugal, although star striker Arjen Robben’s thigh injury has clouded their

preparations.

“A lot of people will probably think that we will make it to the next round without too much trouble. However, our opponents shouldn’t be underestimated,” said Van Marwijk, who replaced Marco van Basten after Euro 2008.

The Dutch are making their ninth World Cup appearance, but too often their attractive style has failed to translate into success runner-up spots during their heyday in 1974 and 1978 are all they have to show for their efforts.

But with players like Robben, Dirk Kuyt, Mark van Bommel and Robin van Persie at his disposal, the pressure is on to finally lift the trophy.

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Bryant, Fisher lead Lakers to victory in Game 3 Associated Press Writer

BOSTON – Derek Fisher rallied his teammates with a motivational speech on the bench during the break before the fourth quarter. Then he went out and showed them how it’s done.

“Derek, he’s our vocal leader.

He’s the guy that pulls everybody together and is always giving positive reinforcement,” Lakers guard Kobe Bryant said after Fisher made five baskets in the final period to lead Los Angeles to a 91-84 victory Tuesday night over the Boston Celtics and a 2-1 lead in the NBA finals.

“That’s what he does. That’s what he’s been doing extremely well. He has a knack for saying the right thing at the right time.”

Bryant scored 29 points and Fisher had 16, including 11 in the fourth quarter after Boston cut a 17-point first-half lead to one point.

Game 4 is Thursday night in Boston, and a Lakers victory would put them within one win of avenging the loss to their longtime rivals in the 2008 finals — not to mention the eight other times the Celtics have won an NBA title at the Lakers’ expense.

“Our thoughts are really just still on how disappointed we are, or were, losing that second game on our home court. I think that had more of our attention and focus than what happened in ’08,” Fisher said. “We didn’t doubt our ability to win here. ... We understand when you want to be the best, you have to win wherever, whenever.”

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Los Angeles Lakers Pau Gasol goes up for a shot against the Boston Celtics Rasheed Wallace (L) during game three of the NBA Finals on June 8, 2010 in Boston. Kobe Bryant scored 29 points and Derek Fisher finished with 16 as the Lakers beat the Celtics 91-84 to take a 2-1 series lead in the NBA finals.

Bryant had 25 points after three quarters, but he did not score for the first 10 minutes of the fourth.

That’s when Fisher took over, hitting four out of five Lakers baskets to help them reclaim the home-court advantage they lost when the Celtics won Game 2 in L.A. “Derek Fisher was the difference in the game,” Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. “He’s just a gutty, gritty player and he gutted the game out for them. I thought Kobe was struggling a little bit, and Fisher — he basically took the game over. ... I don’t know what he had in the fourth quarter ... but most of them were down the stretch.”

Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum had 10 rebounds apiece for Los Angeles. Kevin Garnett, who had just six points in Boston’s victory Sunday, had 25 in Game 3. But Allen, who had 32 points in Game 2, missed all 13 field goal attempts — one shy of the NBA finals futility record — many of them while Fisher was guarding him.

“It’s a hell of a swing, I’ll tell you that,” Rivers said. “It’s basketball. That’s why you can’t worry about it. He’ll be back in the gym tomorrow and getting ready for the next game. ... It happens to the best of us.”

The Celtics had high hopes after splitting the opening two games in Los Angeles, but the “Beat L.A.!” chants at the TD Garden couldn’t help them overcome poor shooting. And it couldn’t stop Fisher.

Fisher, 34, came into the league with Bryant in 1996 and has a history of clutch shots, from the heave with 0.4 seconds left to beat San Antonio in the 2004 playoffs to the late jumpers in a seriesswinging victory over Orlando in Game 4 of last year’s finals. The Lakers went on to beat the Magic in five games, earning their 15th NBA title — second only to Boston’s 17.

“I think as you grow in this game and you put in the work that’s required to still be around 14 years later, you start to recognize that being in this moment, on this stage, it’s not a given. It’s not something that happens every season,” Fisher said. “Five or 10 years from now, when I’m long gone, I would have hated to feel like I didn’t just do everything I could have to help my team.

Things have worked out well, and we have two more wins to get to really put a nice cap on it.”

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Maradona brings X-factor to Group B Agence France Presse

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – All eyes will be on the World Cup’s Group B in South Africa thanks to the presence in the Argentina dugout of one Diego Armando Maradona.

The star of the 1986 World Cup and one of the greatest players ever, the colourful and controversial 49-yearold is sure to attract his fair share of headlines in his new guise as national coach.

Having endured a turbulent qualifying campaign, Maradona has overseen a marked improvement since his side snatched a berth at the finals in their last qualifying game against Uruguay.

The impressive nature of their 1-0 friendly win in Germany in March prompted critics to reassess their preconceptions about Argentina’s chances of success, while in European Footballer of the Year Lionel Messi they boast the world’s best player.

Their squad is also thick with guile and experience, despite the surprising omissions of Inter Milan pair Javier Zanetti and Esteban Cambiasso.

Argentina will face Greece, Nigeria and South Korea in the group phase and captain Javier Mascherano believes there will be no need to worry if the two-time champions don’t click immediately.

“In the long run what really matters is not what the pundits say but how well you do during that month,” said the holding midfielder, who looks set to leave Liverpool after the tournament.

“Spain and Brazil look a cut above the rest because they?ve both won trophies in the last couple of years, but experience tells me that the World Cup is won by the team that improves through the tournament, not necessarily the one who plays the best.”

(AFP/File/Daniel Garcia)

Argentina’s national football team coach Diego Maradona is seen during a training session with the squad he now coaches. The star of the 1986 World Cup and one of the greatest players ever, the colourful and controversial Maradona is sure to attract his fair share of headlines in his new guise as national coach.

Maradona, meanwhile, is confident that his team can go all the way. “I tell my players that 30 days of sacrifice for the chance to kiss the World Cup is nothing in the life of a man,” he said.

“An achievement like that is like touching the sky. I played in World Cups and I reached two finals. I know what it takes.”

Argentina qualified despite a humiliating 6-1 loss at altitude in Bolivia and a first ever home qualifying defeat to Brazil, but underwhelming pretournament form is something of a feature in Group B. South Korea, semi-finalists on home soil in 2002, overcame a sluggish start under new coach Huh JungMoo but eventually qualified with two games to spare to reach their eighth finals — an Asian record.

Federer back to winning ways at Halle Agence France Presse

HALLE – Roger Federer made a victorious start to the grasscourt tennis season with a 6-4, 6-4 defeat of Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen in the first round of the ATP event here on Tuesday.

The top-seeded Swiss superstar, five times a champion here, prevailed in 1hr 03min to set up a second-round match with either Colombia’s Alejandro Falla or Israeli qualifier Noam Okun.

“I had two double faults, which is usually enough for two matches,” said Federer, who had to save two break points in his first service game.

Federer is seeking to bounce back after falling to Sweden’s Robin Soderling in the quarter-finals at last week’s French Open and losing his world number one crown to eventual Paris champion Rafael Nadal.

The 16-time Grand Slam champion typically uses the Halle event as a tuneup event for Wimbledon, where he will this year seek to win a record-equal-

ling seventh singles title on the southwest London grass.

Elsewhere at Halle on Tuesday, Russian second seed Nikolay Davydenko beat Germany’s Simon Greul 7-6 (7/ 1), 6-0, but Davydenko’s third-seeded compatriot Mikhail Youzhny fell 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 to German Nicolas Kiefer.

“It was a tough game for me. The longer an injury absence endures, the harder it is to come back,” said Davydenko, who is making his return to action after three months on the sidelines with a left wrist problem.

Austrian sixth seed Jurgen Melzer, a surprise semi-finalist at Roland Garros, overcame the loss of the first set against Russia’s Alexandre Kudryavtsev to win 3-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-2.

Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber kept on course for a quarter-final meeting with Federer by edging Belgium’s Ruben Bemelmans 7-6 (7/2), 6-7 (10/ 12), 6-4. Next up for Kohlschreiber is Swiss Marco Chiudinelli, who defeated lucky loser Olivier Rochus of Belgium 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.

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Hamilton: Momentum is building, McLaren ‘absolutely on it’ After what he describes as a ‘wicked’ victory in the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul last time out - and a one-two at that former F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton reveals the momentum is building inside McLaren-Mercedes, and that the team is ‘absolutely on it’ Former F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton admits that he ‘can’t keep the smile off his face’ heading to Montreal for this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, for not only is the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve the scene of his breakthrough success in the top flight three years ago, but he contends that his McLaren-Mercedes team is now ‘absolutely on it’.

With Red Bull Racing having proven the undisputed benchmark in F1 2010 to-date, the Woking-based outfit finally got on terms with its Milton Keynes rival in the Turkish Grand Prix just over a week ago, and the pressure applied by both Hamilton and team-mate and compatriot Jenson Button was inarguably a factor in the desperate overtaking move by Sebastian Vettel that resulted in himself and Mark Webber crashing out of contention for victory in Istanbul and handing McLaren its second one-two of the campaign practically on a plate – and with it, the 2008 world champion’s first triumph of the season.

That, the 25-year-old affirms, was down to the team’s relentless work ethic, already ably witnessed last year when McLaren turned around a 2.5-second deficit to the front-runners at the beginning of the

campaign to steal pole position in four of the last seven races. With less of a comeback to pull off twelve months on, Hamilton is buoyant about his prospects looking forwards now.

“It was such a great achievement for the team and for me to finally get a win this year,” he reflected of his Turkish success, speaking to his personal website. “I have been working hard all year for that win, so for the opportunity to finally arrive I felt it was a blessing. It felt good; I felt strong all weekend and knew I could challenge the Red Bulls and I did – it was wicked!

“The team did a solid job as they always do throughout the weekend, and without their continued hard work – both on and off the track – we would not be in the position we are to compete with the Red Bulls.

For this I am extremely grateful, and I want to congratulate them on our success.

“It was almost ten races since I had won a race, but it’s all good. I think most drivers would be happy with that. For some its 20, 50 or 100, so I remain grateful to be in the position I am – and I have no doubt at all that with this approach we can win more races this year.”

Along the way, Hamilton had to

get the better of Button in a brief but fierce internecine scrap that caused some to fear that the two McLarens might end up going the same way as the two Red Bulls – but in a show of mutual respect in giving each other just enough room to run side-by-side, the British duo held it together, and Hamilton ultimately re-emerged back ahead.

“I think that added to the win,” opined the Stevenage-born ace. “To finally have a race with my teammate – wheel-to-wheel – was a great feeling, and to come out on top was a bonus. I am looking forward to many more races like that where we have fun, hard battles yet fair in our race to the championship. I’ve known Jenson for a very long time, and I think we have a lot of respect for each other and [for]what we’ve achieved as drivers. We’re both world champions, so we have a certain amount of pressure removed from our shoulders too.

“I’ve really got to know Jenson well over the past six months. We’ve been working hard, we’ve spent a lot of time together, at the circuit and at events arranged by Vodafone and our other partners – I think that, because we’ve spent a lot of downtime together during filming days or appearances, we’ve actually got to know each other better than if, say, we’d only been working together at the track. He brings a lot of positive energy to the race weekends, and he’s made our team stronger, so these are all positives.

Pirelli on verge of deal AS Pirelli prepares to clear the final hurdle in its bid to return to F1 for the first time in almost two decades in 2011, could Michelin’s last-ditch spoiler effort scupper the Italian marque’s deal..?

Just as Pirelli seemed all-set to sign on the dotted line to become the sole tyre-supplier in F1 from 2011 onwards, it appears Michelin has tabled an eleventhhour bid to scupper its Italian rival and seal the deal for itself – as teams hope to be able to test the new tyres later this summer.

It was speculated towards the end of last month that it was all-

but agreed that Pirelli would return to the highest level next year for the first time since 1991 – in addition to providing tyres for the feeder GP2 Series alongside its current commitments to GP3 and the World Rally Championship – but when no announcement was forthcoming over the weekend of the Turkish Grand Prix, people began to wonder if there had been a change of heart.

Pirelli is understood to be the favoured supplier by both F1 commercial rights-holder Bernie Ecclestone and the majority of the sport’s teams, but Ferrari is conversely championing the more ex-

pensive Michelin offer, given the French marque’s far more recent experience of the top flight having departed the fray only four years ago – and FIA President Jean Todt is believed to similarly be more inclined towards the latter, hence the ongoing situation of stalemate.

Michelin motorsport chief Nick Sharrock travelled to Istanbul to meet with Formula One Management (FOM) chief executive Ecclestone and the Formula One Teams’ Association (FOTA), but the 90-minute reunion again proved inconclusive

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